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varletry

[ vahr-li-tree ]

noun

Archaic.
  1. varlets collectively.
  2. the mob or rabble.


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noun

  1. the varletry
    rabble; mob
  2. varlets collectively
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of varletry1

First recorded in 1600–10; varlet + -ry
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"I will go and fright the varletry with my presence, and secure, I trust, a horse for your majesty, and one for myself."

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Sorrows and sighs shall be the varletry, To serve the lovers at this festival: The table shall be death, black death profound; Weep, stones, and utter sighs, ye walls around!

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She'll not be "chastised with the sober eye of dull Octavia," nor shown "to the shouting varletry of censuring Rome."

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